"Max Payne" Director to Helm "Die Hard 5"

20th Century Fox recently offered Noam Murro (Smart People) to direct the fifth "Die Hard" installment, but he eventually turned it down since he's already directing the upcoming "300" sequel.

The studio immediately started searching for his replacement and rumors began to spread that director John Moore (Max Payne, Behind Enemy Lines) was the favorite. Now comes word that Moore is in final negotiations, which means that unless something big happens, Moore will be directing "Die Hard 5."

While the studio liked Moore from the beginning, the director had to convince Bruce Willis that he'll treat the John McClane character with respect. In the end, Moore beat out such directors as Joe Cornish (Attack the Block), Justin Lin (Fast Five), Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronsan), Gary Fleder, Paul McGuigan and Mikael Hafstrom (1408).

The story, written by Skip Woods (The A-Team, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) will take McClane and his son to Russia. Mary Elizabeth Winstead played his daughter in "Live Free or Die Hard" and Noah Land played John McClane Jr, the son, in the original "Die Hard" film.

Behind enemy lines has got to be one of the biggest pieces of Boar sh*t ever.Owen Wilson was totally miscast in that movie.After that the director should of been making films in Burma. I'm not even gonna talk about Max Payne

well there goes my favorite movie series. 4 was silly but still decent action and fun script. but skip woods has written some lousy movies and i have such an appreciation for the max payne video games and the movie was just abysmal, it almost ruined the game for me it was so disappointing. this is terrible news.

Good call on that. That was a damn good action movie and that director should get the chance to do a big budget movie but the studio woud prefer someone they can control like the awful john moore. Ugh this blows

die hard 2 and 3 were very worthy follow ups and 4 was silly. if 5 keeps it simple like 1 then hopefully it will be cool but after 4 i am afraid they will try to make it too big. i do like the rumor of hans and simons sister coming into play. we can only have hope a movie like this